“Gomorra,” the three-year-old Italian television crime drama based on Roberto Saviano’s 2009 book about the Naples organized crime group, the Camorra, recently aired to American audiences at the Sundance Festival.…

Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination had barely started when there was a flurry of editorials comparing him to Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Commentators such as Jacob…